The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-12-23
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The republicans Of Virginia have
nominated Malone for senator.
The ElkhaFt, Ind, paper pail and
the Excelsior starch mills burned
Asbestos cloth Is being used for
wearing apparel BY the fremen os Paria-
ii Tie United States there Il pub
lished one paper to every 44ss iuhab-
itants.
Fried meat for whooping cough
once formed very popular treatment
in England.
At Claremont, w., Joel crowther,
drunken cigar,makeF, choked bis
mother 10 death,
A bFonze statue Of Longfellow is
soon 70 be erected 10 Portland, Me-,
tho city Of his birth.
A painting BY salyator Rosa has
been discovered in Paris which Is
said to be worth $4,000,
Kalamazoo il shipping about fye
freight cars full 81 celery every
week, besides about fifty tons daily
by express,
A preacher ID Epson county Ga,
has married III couples since he has
been IN Che ministry, and has received
only one fee
Darwin's biography has had a great
sale The entire edition 81 1000 haa
been sold and still there is great de-
mand for the work.
The Philadelphia grand jury wants
to put the wife heaters of that city on
the ehaln'gang aud set them To-
aweaplng the streets,
A letter from Damascus tells Of ar
rangements for street cars through
that ancient city, founded BY Abra-
ham 1900 years before the Christian
era,
The Tortolita Gold and SilYqr Min
ipg Go, has sued James Gordon Benz
nett for s5oo,ooo damages for alleged
libel published ID tile New York Her
aid.
A negro burglar who had entered
the dwelling Of Joseph Mullen, ii
oabell county, W. Va, Monday
night, VIVA shot and killed BY Mia
Mullen,
Edward Chadwick, Of South Lyons,
Conn, has been postmaster for forty
eight consecutive years, and has seen
postage reduced from twenty-five 10
two cents.
=. 1, Harper, tho ex,bankeF Of
Cincinnati, has donnad bis convict
suit, He has been assigned 70 i
clerkship in the seeretaFy'a office IN
the penitentiaFy,
The Atlanta, Ga, city council has
iixed $1,000 IS the cost Of . retail
liquor dealer's license, The oFdi,
nance restricts salopns to certain
streets, and provides for strict regpla,
tion.
a train on the Michigan Central
railway recently ran from Jackson %
Michigan City, 4 distance of l5s miles,
ip III minutes, making several stops
This is reported 70 BE- the fastest time
ever made on the road,
sebsslin Mailer, q Swiss, s5 years
old, Aye feet eight inches tail, weighs
las pounds, can break . slx-ineh cob
bic stone With one blow Of his tist.
He ~ new giving exhibltionR of biz
strength II New HaYen,
4 large White oak tree, ewnea BIZ
A. 4, Hillburp, AZ Vernon, Ala, II ona
81 the botanical ruriositiea there,
Half Of the foliage qf lhe tree Il vel
low all simmer And aptppn ana The
other half u always . dark green,
M q, Van HoFd, vice president Of
tbe Uanadiap Pacific railway, sald D
few days ago that ip lesg than . month
His ROAD would haye eonnseIion at
sault $40. Maria that would tap our
Northwest and be ef immense adgan9
tags NJ me gappala Pacific.
Carrying ont one 81 Senator lIoaF's
ideas, the Essex club, Of Boston, haa
spggoslod tbat the public schools of
| Massaehusetts deyote 3 potion ef
December a N exercises IN hopor eI
/ John " WhittieE, ihat dag Being ihi
1 eigAtieth anniversary of bis birth
A map ~ Iowa Aaa solved sh
pFsblep " tow " bore square box
alter fourteen ycags q study +
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